Why Sri Lanka

Why you must visit Sri Lanka

With many sites and scenes bottled up in to a small island, a traveller could be riding the waves in the dawn and admiring the green carpeted mountains by dusk. Travel destinations in Sri Lanka provide an array of holiday experience from sun kissed beach holidays to a marathon of wildlife watching, adrenaline pumping adventure sports and pilgrimage to some of the oldest cities in the world

Golden Beaches

With nearly 1600 km of palm fringed Coastline baked to perfection surrounding the country Sri Lanka is the ideal destination for beach bums worldwide. May it be windsurfing, kayaking, yachting, water skiing, scuba diving or jut lazing around for the perfect tan, Sri Lanka offers it all.

Misty mountains

The Hill Country is exceptionally beautiful, with crystal clear waterfalls and tea plantations dotted throughout. The temperature in this region stays cool all year round, in an atmosphere of early morning Spring.

Giant Whales

Sri Lanka became a world famous Whale watching hot spot, people from all over the world tend to visit Sri lanka and visit Mirissa. You can visit whale habitats from two hours wonderful boat trip in Mirissa.

Mighty Elephants

Shadows begin to emerge from the surrounding jungle, one by one, elephants slowly make their way out of the shady trees and out onto the plains towards the water, glistening under what is left of the afternoon sun. Seemingly from every direction these magnificent animals converge.

Majestic Past

Sri Lanka is a beautiful tropical island where locals have tended to follow the Buddhist religion throughout the ages. With over two millennia of history in Buddhism, Sri Lanka is what one would call a ‘Buddhist’s Heaven’.

Lovely Tea

Since 1880s, this small Indian Ocean Island is famed for producing the finest black tea in the world, grown and produced according to uncompromising, traditional methods and standards.

Warm Smiles / Helpfulness

The smiles and hospitality of Sri Lanka id world famous and found nowhere in the world.

Sri Lanka Travel Tips

With effect from 1st January 2012, all Holiday or Business travelers to Sri Lanka must have Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) for entering in to Sri Lanka. Please visit below “useful links” section.

One of the joys of travel in Sri Lanka is the delicious, spice-rich food. But in a world awash with popular Southeast Asian and Indian dishes, why is so little known about the country’s cuisine? Tandoori, green curry, pho – sure, we’ve been there, we know the origins. But hoppers? Wattalappam? Lamprais? These names don’t leap from international menus. More’s the pity…

The average temperature is around 27°C – 30°C in most parts of island. The temperature gradually drops as the land rises towards the hill country, with some parts of the highland as low as below 10°C at night. The island has two wet monsoon seasons: briefly between May and July in the south-west region and between December and January in the north-east.

What to pack

Sri Lanka has a tropical country and cotton clothes are the most ideal to wear and of course your bathing suits are a must if you are visiting the beaches. Sun tan lotion could be very handy as it can be very hot sometimes.

Water

Filtered, mineral and bottled drinking water is available at most retail shops.

Electricity

220 Volts/50 Hz Ac. Two and three pin plugs are used mostly.

Communication

International Direct Dialling (IDD) facilities are available at all city hotels, resorts, post offices and telecommunication centres. Postal services are provided at most hotels and at the local post office or authorised sub-post offices. Telegrams and faxes can be handed over to the hotel reception for transmission.

Esala Perahera

Today’s Esala Perahera is as colorful as the story of its origins. The time-honoured elephant parade takes place in Kandy, the Sri Lankan centre of Buddhism. For more than 400 years, the city’s Dalada Maligawa (Temple of the Tooth Relic) has housed the revered dentistry. A replica casket is used in the parades, but that doesn’t stop thousands of Buddhist pilgrims from breaking out their drums, whips and fire.